Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 140
A century ago, the Brilliant Star, like the Sea Mist, had been a escort ship for the Lost Home.

However, few people know what happened to these two legendary warships after they broke up with the Lost Homeland, and how they became what they are now step by step.

The Seamist under the command of "Steel Vice Admiral" Tirian once became the main warship of the Frost City-state after several twists and turns. People called it the "unsinkable ship" and "breathing wreck". It has been severely damaged many times during the battle, but it seems that there is an immortal soul dominating it, making it struggle again and again from the fate of being almost doomed to sink, and after repeated transformations that almost violate the principle of shipbuilding Gradually turned into a steel behemoth.

Legend has it that the ship would even feed directly on steel and seabed mineral deposits, growing turrets and armor plates on itself bit by bit during unnoticed night voyages.

As for the Bright Star inherited by the "Sea Witch" Lucrezia, it has a thicker veil of mystery because it is less close to the civilized world-in fact, except for a small number of members of the Explorers' Association and those who often patrol the border Outside of the Holy See fleet, ordinary captains on the Boundless Sea had no chance to see the appearance of this ship with their own eyes.

And those who were lucky enough to see the Bright Star described the ship this way:
"It obviously doesn't completely belong to our real world anymore. The ship has actually sunk at least once, and lost half of its structure in the boundless sea. Half of its hull is like a ghost, showing the appearance of a century ago, and the other Under the power of the witch, half of the ship was distorted into a strange and weird posture. The bow of the ship was covered with cursed objects from the deep sea, and there were clanging machines and magic equipment everywhere. The crew members on board had long since died. Instead of normal sailors, soulless clockwork men and cursed ragdolls ran around the decks.

"There is no doubt that the ship is a sailing corpse—or rather, a half-deformed corpse, dragging with it half its soul."

Lucrezia's eyes slowly swept across her own ship, and she nodded slightly in satisfaction.

The Bright Star is in good shape, and her crew are happy too.

She knew what the world had said of her ship--and what the world had said of her brother's Seamist, and she knew that many captains feared their brother and sister second only to their father who had returned from the Warp.

But she didn't care about that, she dealt with only a few human beings who either had a lot of guts, or a lot of learning, or at least had some real adventures, and those people could It is enough to communicate with her.

She and her brother are still regarded as members of the real world, and are regarded as "on the side of mankind". Even if many people think that the Seafog and the Bright Star are cursed, the above perception will not change .

In the final analysis, there are too many cursed things in this world. Almost every city-state is accompanied by countless abnormalities and visions. Even modern human civilization is described as "cursed." Yes—in this damned world, there might be room for two monster ships.

Lucrezia slowly walked off her "stage" that was blooming like a mechanical flower, and walked to the bow deck. Two clockwork puppets in funny masks made clinking sounds and walked past her. A big rag doll made of velvet, silk and ribbon ran over and made a shrill voice in front of her: "Mistress! Mistress! Good morning! Good morning!"

"It's almost noon." Lucrezia said casually, she passed the doll, stood on the bow and looked into the distance.

She saw an incomparably majestic wall of gray-white fog, standing on the distant sea like a giant curtain at the edge of the world, connecting the sky and the sea, presenting an extremely majestic and magnificent posture.

That is "frontier".

That majestic wall of fog has many names - the border of the world, the majestic fog, the fog barrier, and its most official name should be "Eternal Curtain".

But Lucrezia prefers to call it simply "frontier".

That's what my father called it back then.

Under normal circumstances, this eternal curtain is like a circular barrier, covering all known sea areas, and slightly undulating within a relatively fixed range, it will not shrink or expand, it is just a fixed natural phenomenon.

But on rare occasions, a part of its barrier will suddenly "appear" inside the territory of civilization, and cause terrible disasters in the process of collapsing inward. This fog wall that suddenly appears and collapses in the real dimension will put nearby entities Matter is dragged into the depths of the world, and even opens the door to the subspace—this kind of terrible disaster is called "frontier collapse".

For the captains who often sail on the boundless sea, the collapse of the frontier is a more terrifying thing than storms, turbulence and mass hysteria.

The only good news is that such collapses don't happen very often.

Lucrezia spent most of her time in the border area. She observed and studied the border, and tried to summarize the operation of the thick fog, trying to find out the reason for its sudden inward collapse——after 100 years Her father had done the same before.

But to this day, no one has been able to unravel the secret of this curtain.

At that time, what did my father discover, or what did he "hear" that he suddenly decided to go through the thick fog to find the zeroth anomaly?
Lucrezia withdrew her gaze towards the border.

In the Borderlands, don't stare at the Eternal Veil for a long time. Although there is no clear evidence that the thick fog has the characteristics of devouring the mind and affecting the thinking, but on the infinite sea, especially in places far away from civilized city-states, watch any creature on the sea. Goals are inherently risky.

God knows what is here will spread with the "gaze".

A melodious siren sound broke the calm of the border waters.

Lucrezia followed the prestige, and saw some small silhouettes suddenly appeared on the edge of the thick fog wall, and those silhouettes slowly approached, finally showing the outline of the ship.

Those were three ships, the most cutting-edge steel warships, driven by a surging and powerful steam core, they were heading towards the location of the Bright Star, but this was just a chance encounter.

The other party was the first to blow the whistle, which was to say hello—in this borderland, no matter who you met, as long as the other party was not an evil god of the subspace, it was something to be happy about.

"Mistress," Luni walked over, a dull voice came from the inside of the clockwork maid, "it's the patrol formation of the Holy See... visually confirm it, the Church of Firebringers."

"...Only the Firebearers and the Storm Cultists will be so close to the Eternal Veil when patrolling," Lucrecia sighed softly, "They are all a bunch of desperate guys."

"Do you want to respond?" Luni asked.

"...honk your whistle to them," Lucrezia said softly, "to our continuing civilization."

……

There were no customers in the antique shop today, except for a pair of unremarkable ornaments that were sold in the morning, no one stepped into the shop.

Nina was sitting by the counter holding a textbook on mechanics, concentrating on studying the delicate and complicated mechanical structures on it. From time to time, she picked up the draft pad next to her and sketched in the blank space. Duncan sat at the counter Inside, while flipping through Nina's history textbook curiously, he made some records in his notebook.

Only Shirley had nothing to do. She wanted to go home, but she didn't dare to leave. She wanted to talk to Nina, but she couldn't understand what she was studying. Finally, I couldn't help muttering: "Is reading really so interesting?"

"Interesting!" Nina raised her head, "And I'm about to take the final exam, so I need to hurry up and review."

Duncan also looked up at Shirley: "If you are really bored, you can also find a book to read... I have a brief history of the city-state era here, do you want to read it?"

Shirley glanced at the few books in Duncan's hand, and opened her mouth with an embarrassed look on her face: "I...I don't know how to read..."

Duncan suddenly stopped reading the book, and Nina beside him raised her head in surprise.

"Why are you so surprised?" Seeing the situation, Shirley widened her eyes as if she had been hurt, "I...I said that I sneaked into the school, and I...I never went to school. Is it strange, I was raised by a dog..."

Duncan was indeed a little surprised, but after seeing Shirley's reaction, he was more emotional: "You don't know how to read, but you can still sneak into the school calmly. I really don't know whether to say that you are too confident or too trusting." Agou's unreliable cognitive interference ability."

"Agou's cognitive interference ability is very reliable!" Shirley immediately argued, "It's just... just..."

The girl's face flushed slightly, and she didn't seem to dare to say the following words, but Duncan guessed what the other party wanted to say, and he showed a smile: "You have already dared to argue in front of me-look, there is nothing to be afraid of, isn't it? Is it?"

"That's right, my uncle is so kind." Nina, a silly girl who didn't understand anything, also ignorantly chimed in, "Although he was very irritable for a while, isn't he all right now?"

"I..." Xue Li opened her mouth, but suddenly she didn't know how to communicate with the "uncles and nephews" in front of her, and she couldn't hold back a second word for a long time.

Duncan smiled and shook his head when he saw this, but just when he was about to say something more, a slightly familiar breath suddenly appeared in his perception!
Duncan was slightly taken aback, and in the next second, he could tell who the breath came from——

Vanna!The young Inquisitor is approaching the antique shop... and fast!

(End of this chapter)